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A Canadian rock band called The Tea Party looks set to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars from the sale of its website teaparty.com

In Israel, IP issues are heard by one of six District Courts and are appealable to the Supreme Court. Recent decisions are worrying, not so much because the verdicts are wrong, but because the judges displayed an ignorance of IP Law.

The names of all the gTLD strings that have been applied for in Icann’s new gTLD programme will be revealed on June 13

The growth of India's vibrant generic pharmaceutical industry is, in large part, the result of the government's earlier decision to grant only process patents to pharmaceuticals.

In the recent case FILA Luxembourg SARL v The Turkish Patent Institute and Yardim Tekstil Ltd, the Turkish IP Court was required to consider whether the application for the trade mark FİLO was confusingly similar to the registered trade mark FILA.

Ralph Cunningham, Hong Kong

In order to promote pharmaceutical research within the European Community and to keep the pharmaceutical industry from relocating to countries which offer better protection, EC Regulation Number 1768/92 for supplementary protection certificates (SPCs) was created. SPCs in the Netherlands are also governed by Regulation Number 1768/92. This is a clear and simple regulation which was meant to extend the life of a patent as far as it covered a medicinal product which had received regulatory approval and which should have led to harmonized SPC legislation in the European Community.

The three candidates vying to become the next EUIPO executive director faced questions from the European Parliament’s JURI committee yesterday, June 27

A boom in transactional work and a heightened awareness of IP have helped boost revenue for the rebranded commercial services team

The four candidates contesting the election for EPO president this month tell Emma Barraclough why they are the right person for the job